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  1. The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene ), according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity in early modern humans , [1] until the advent of ...

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  3. Jan 13, 2022 · The true purpose of ancient figurines known as the “Stone Age Venuses” has stumped scholars for more than a century. Pint-size icon More than 200 Paleolithic female figurines have been found ...

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  5. Main Initial Upper Paleolithic human remains ( ) and stone assemblage sites ( ). The Initial Upper Paleolithic (also IUP, c. 50,000-40,000 BP) covers the first stage of the Upper Paleolithic, during which modern human populations expanded throughout Eurasia.

  6. May 29, 2016 · Intrigued, von Petzinger expanded her study to all of Europe, scouring reports of 367 Upper Paleolithic rock art sites from northern Spain to the Ural Mountains in Russia.

  7. The Paleo-Indians, also known as the Lithic peoples, are the earliest known settlers of the Americas; the period's name, the Lithic stage, derives from the appearance of lithic flaked stone tools. Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.

  8. Jun 30, 2017 · More than 90 percent of species that have lived over the course of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history are extinct. Our planet has preserved evidence of this incredibly diversity of prehistoric ...